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Symbolic link or symlink is a special type of file that contains a reference to another file or directory as an absolute or relative path. For most operations, symbolic links are transparent and the read or write operations on symbolic link files are redirected to actual files i.e the files that ...

Is there a proper way to link /home/user/app/public to /home/user/public_html, considering the fact that the target already exists?
If I do ln -s /home/user/app/public /home/user/public_html, I end ...

I haven't used hardlinks for a long time and never really needed them until I was asked in an interview. I read their difference from symlinks here: What is the difference between a hard link and a ...

I'm having some problems with soft links that direct to files in a shared partition I'm using to share files between Ubuntu and OSX. When I first set everything up it all worked perfectly, but after a ...

VBox suggests an extremely inadequate default size for its root partition, so I had to create and mount a more realistic /dev/sdb1 to do anything useful. Despite that, / (/dev/sda1) is 96% full, and ...

creating link from GAMIT directory to gg;
ln -s -f /home/sorbilene/GAMIT ~/gg
then gg directory (involves all files of GAMIT directory) was created in /home/sorbilene. I tried to get the same place ...

I've compiled Gamit/Globk software from the source codes. The installation directory's path "/home/sorbilene/GAMIT".
I need to create links and set environment variables to run the software without ...

I was trying to create a bootable USB of Ubuntu from Ubuntu when some symbolic links errors appeared, which I explained in this question. There was no valid answer what these errors are, nor are they ...

For my specific case, I am running a minecraft server on a SSD. I want to store one set of game files on the SSD so I can have a fast load time, but auto-backup to my HDD so I don't wear out the SSD ...

I am new to Ubuntu. I want to know if sh is a symbolic link to bash. Similarly, if "/usr/bin/awk" is a symbolic link to gawk and if "/usr/bin/yacc" is a symbolic link to bison or a small script that ...

I am having the following issue and am not sure how to fix. I do not know what linking is but I hear it's related to the problem.
I'm trying to set up a python module:
First I call in the directory ...

I've set a script to be running on subdomain.domain.com mostly for security by isolation reasons.
I need to include some output of it at domain.com. The thing is it uses ajax and hence cross-domain ...

I'm looking for a solution for the problem like below.
What ever file or DIR that i put in /home/martin DIR, should land in /home-extended/martin DIR.
Reason behind this, is /home DIR has only 2 GB ...

I'm new to Linux (have only been using it for a few days) and am using Ubuntu 14.04. I've been a Windows user my whole life, so there are a lot of things I'm getting used to. One example: symlinks.
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I've created a link to a folder located on a NTFS partition, in the same HDD where Ubuntu is installed. After rebooting, the link says it's broken (the link shows a lock icon to the lower right and ...

I'm trying to create a shortcut that will run a .sh file deep in some directory without having to navigating to the absolute path.
I have tried using aliases, which did not work as.
Using soft/hard ...

I posted this already on stackoverflow and it was suggested I ask here...
I am running ubuntu 14.04 in vagrant on a windows 7 pc. I am running VirtualBox and git bash as administrator.
I've created ...

I mount C:/, and I create a link from my Ubuntu desktop to Windows desktop. However, when I restart the computer, mount C again, and double click on the link, I get the error message This link cannot ...

Im right right now in the middle of creating Mediawiki on Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS for client and i'm having some troubles doing that. I managed to establish accessible Mediawiki instance in apache but i ...

After installation of Matlab 2014b on Kubuntu, I've created symbolic link to matlab.sh. And now when I start it in Konsole by matlab or ./matlab it works fine. But if I launch it by clicking on file ...

I have xubuntu installation and xampp installed on my pc, and everything works great, but lately i am experimenting a little bit with laravel framework and a lot of tutorials and people just use php ...